Cover-fastener.



E. F. JONES. GOVBR FASTENER. APPLICATION FILED 001 .14, 1912.

Paflsentedl Sept. 16, 1913.

v II/ UNKTEPD EUGENE F. JONES, OF RICHMOND,-VIRGINIA, ASSIGNOR 0F ONE-HALF TO F. A. SPENCE,

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To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, EUGENE'F. JoNEs, a citizen of the United States, residing at Richmond, in the county of Henrioo and State of Virginia, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Cover-Fasteners; and I do declare the following to be a full, clear, andexact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

This invention relates to improvements in box or cover fasteners and is especially adapted for use in securing the tops and bottoms of knockdown boxes detachably in position.

. The object of the invention is to provide a simply constructed, cheap and efficient device of this character which may be quickly applied and which will reliably hold the cover in engagement with the article upon which it is mounted.

With this and other objects in view, the invention consistsof certain novel features of construction and the combination and arrangement of parts as will be more fully described and claimed.

In the accompanying drawings: Figure 1 represents a perspective view of a box equipped with this improved cover fastener; Fig. 2 is an end elevation with parts broken out showing one of the cover fasteners in operative position and the other in released or disengaged position; Fig. 3 is an enlarged sectional detail taken on the line 33 .of Fig. 2; Fig. 4 is a perspective View of the fastener detached.

In the embodiment illustrated a knockdown box 1 is shown having a removable top 2 and bottom 3 secured in position by this improved fastener which is here shown in the form of a substantially L-shaped member 4L, the short arm 5 of which is inclined to facilitate its locking engagement with a notch 6 formed in the side member of the box. The notches 6 here shown are formed in cleats 7 and 8 secured to the side walls of the box to which the top and bot Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Sept.16,1913.

Application filed October 14, 1912. Serial No. 725,689.

tom are secured by these improved fasteners. The outer walls of these notches 6 are inclined inwardly as shown at 9 with which the hook shaped or inclined arm 5 of the fastener is designed to engage when swung inwardly in the position shown at the left of Fig. 2 and in which position it is held by a pin 10 extending transversely behind said catch l. Four of these fasteners 4 are shown for securing the top 2 in position and the shanks or long arms thereof extend through and are pivoted in openings 11 in the top, said openings being beveled at their opposite ends to permit the swinging motion of the upper ends of the fasteners. The hook shaped lower ends of the fasteners extend into recesses12 formed in the upper ends of cleats 13 and 14 secured to the outer face of the end members of the box to which the cover is applied and to lock said cover in position the lower hook shaped ends of the fasteners are swung inwardly into engagement'with the notches G and are then secured in this position by the pins 10 above referred to. To disengage the catches or fasteners 1+ when it is desired to remove the top of the box the pins are withdrawn and the upper ends of the catches actuated to swing their inner ends out of engagement with the notches 6 and the top may then be freely removed. lVhile T have described the top only as secured by these fasteners it is obvious that the bottom 3 may be secured in the same manner and it is so shown in dotted lines in Fig. 2 of the drawings.

Vlhile I have described my invention with more or less minuteness as regards details and as being embodied in certain precise forms, I do not desire to be limited thereto unduly any more than is'pointed out in the claim. On the contrary, I contemplate all proper changes in form, construction and arrangement, the omission of immaterial elements and substitution of equivalents as circumstances may suggest or render expedient.

I claim as my invention:

The combination with a receptacle having a recess in the upper edge of one wall with a notch extending laterally from said recess In testimony whereof I have hereunto and provided With an upwardly inclined set my hand in presence of two subscribing upper Wall, of a cover having a latch pivot- Witnesses.

ally mounted thereon and provided at its EUGENE F. JONES. 5 lower end with an upwardly inclined hook WVit-nesses:

adapted to engage the inclined Wall of the NELLHEE. MABRIN,

notch in said receptacle. 7 r J. R. JONES.

Copies of this patent may be o'nrsainedfor five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents Washington, G. 

